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Figures 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d show typical drive connections. The following table lists the maximum cable lengths and number of devices with single-ended I/O circuits allowed on a daisy-chain cable for 5 and 20 Mbytes/sec I/O data transfer rates.

Table 4: Cable characteristics for single-ended circuits

I/O transfer

Maximum number of

Maximum cable

rate

devices on line

length allowed

 

 

 

 

 

5

Mbytes/s

8

(reg. SCSI bus)

6 meters (19.7 ft.)

 

 

 

 

 

5

Mbytes/s

16

(wide SCSI bus)

6 meters (19.7 ft.)

 

 

 

 

 

20

Mbytes/s

4

(reg. SCSI bus)

3 meters (9.8 ft.)

 

 

 

 

 

20

Mbytes/s

8

(reg. SCSI bus)

1.5 meters (4.9 ft.)

 

 

 

 

 

20

Mbytes/s

 

(wide SCSI bus)1

1

1See system documentation. ANSI spec does not specify a value here.

For devices having differential I/O circuits, a maximum cable length of 25 meters (82 feet) is allowed. A maximum of 8 devices can be connected on an 8-bit wide data bus, and a maximum of 16 devices can be connected on a 16-bit wide data bus.

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